Nov 2019 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

• Drove end-to-end design, delivery, and adoption of numerous
• multi-month projects, as a part of the team responsible for building the Workflows product. It drives over 55% of the $2.6B ARR for Databricks today
• Led a tiger team of engineers to rapidly close a gap around shared cluster adoption, unlocking $106M of revenue and opening the door to a $1.1B TAM opportunity
• Drove incident & security response during oncall shifts, working on service health and continuous improvement in quality, operability and productivity of team
• Played a key role in the re-architecture of the core service from a monolith to microservices, that enabled the product to scale to now handling over 40M job runs triggered every day
• Led and contributed to several projects that enabled Workflows o be at par with (or better than) the top orchestrators in the industry

Jul 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• As a part of the pocket-sized engineering team, I have worked on almost all of the nitty-gritties involved in building the most popular Edtech product in the country. Have had the opportunity to help lay the groundwork that enabled the platform to scale from:
• 400k to 10M+ users
• Serving content via discovery in it's early days to achieving a product-market fit via a subscription model
• A single monolithic service to a plethora of services across multiple in-house products
• A $15M valuation to over $1.45B (~$3.4B today)

Jan 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• For programming lessons prepared by me, visit:
• https://unacademy.in/user/PulkitMendiratta
• https://unacademy.in/user/hackerearth

Dec 2016 – Jul 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as a part of the Retail team, on developing efficient selling system management services. The legacy architecture was replaced and a better system was put in place, that allowed Retail to scale easily across categories.
• The major highlight was the launch of Grocery. Worked on the core logic of processing and selecting grocery lots, from inwarding in warehouse to customer recommendation and developing services for it. The problem becomes complex because of a number factors that can influence a lot selection, alongside the variety of lots available in FMCG categories.
• Technologies:
• Java, Dropwizard, Zookeeper, HDFS, SQL

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as a part of Media.net, a contextual ad network which reaches more than 100 million US desktop users and serves as a major revenue driver, in the Spam Analysis and Detection Team.
• Technologies:
• Node.js, MongoDB, Redis

Jul 2016 – Aug 2016 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Working on creating test environments to detect anomalies in the Butler path driven systems
• Technologies:
• Erlang, Selenium

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo

• Interned as a Problem Curator at HackerEarth.
• > Setting Algorithmic/AI/QA challenges, set according to the Job profile, used for Hiring purposes.
• > Conducting Global Competitive Programming Contests for students as well as professionals.
• > Responsible for creating and maintaining rich quality content in the form
• of tutorials, editorials etc. for experts and amateurs alike.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Work on setting/testing problems for contests hosted at the HackerEarth platform.